Deuteronomy 4:42

in hope of eternal life, which God, who can’t lie, promised before time began;

God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?

but not if it is unintentional, but God allows it to happen; then I will appoint you a place where he shall flee.

Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.”

Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me. Let him make peace with me.”

In this way God, being determined to show more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, interposed with an oath,

Hurry, escape there, for I can’t do anything until you get there.” Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.

“ ‘But if he shoved him suddenly without hostility, or hurled on him anything without lying in wait,

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise,

that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their pasture lands.

To the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Libnah with its pasture lands,

This news came to Joab; for Joab had followed Adonijah, although he didn’t follow Absalom. Joab fled to Yahweh’s Tent, and held onto the horns of the altar.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”

I wait for Yahweh. My soul waits. I hope in his word.

Take firm hold of instruction. Don’t let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.

“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?

For Yahweh says, “To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, choose the things that please me, and hold fast to my covenant,

There is no one who calls on your name, who stirs himself up to take hold of you; for you have hidden your face from us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities.

They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Behold, there was a man in Jerusalem whose name was Simeon. This man was righteous and devout, looking for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was on him.

May it never be! Yes, let God be found true, but every man a liar. As it is written, “that you might be justified in your words, and might prevail when you come into judgment.”

whom God sent to be an atoning sacrifice, through faith in his blood, for a demonstration of his righteousness through the passing over of prior sins, in God’s forbearance;

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ according to the commandment of God our Savior and the Lord Jesus Christ our hope;

Fight the good fight of faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called, and you confessed the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

If we are faithless, he remains faithful; for he can’t deny himself.”

As I swore in my wrath, ‘They will not enter into my rest.’ ”

you shall set apart three cities for yourselves in the middle of your land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess.

This is the case of the man slayer who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unintentionally, and didn’t hate him in time past—

“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,

They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,

They gave to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh Golan in Bashan with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Be Eshterah with its pasture lands: two cities.

Out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, Hammothdor with its pasture lands, and Kartan with its pasture lands: three cities.

Out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its pasture lands, Jahaz with its pasture lands,

Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its pasture lands, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Mahanaim with its pasture lands,

found his heart faithful before you, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, to give it to his offspring, and have performed your words; for you are righteous.

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

Behold, Yahweh’s eye is on those who fear him, on those who hope in his loving kindness,

Trust in him at all times, you people. Pour out your heart before him. God is a refuge for us.

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her. Happy is everyone who retains her.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.

Therefore you now have sorrow, but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

Now the God of perseverance and of encouragement grant you to be of the same mind with one another according to Christ Jesus,

If therefore there is any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassion,

because of the hope which is laid up for you in the heavens, of which you heard before in the word of the truth of the Good News

to whom God was pleased to make known what are the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

(for the law made nothing perfect), and a bringing in of a better hope, through which we draw near to God.

(for they indeed have been made priests without an oath), but he with an oath by him that says of him, “The Lord swore and will not change his mind, ‘You are a priest forever, according to the order of Melchizedek.’ ”

By faith, Noah, being warned about things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared a ship for the saving of his house, through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Everyone who has this hope set on him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

“The cities which you shall give to the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which you shall give for the man slayer to flee to. Besides them you shall give forty-two cities.

then you shall appoint for yourselves cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the man slayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

If there arises a matter too hard for you in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within your gates, then you shall arise, and go up to the place which Yahweh your God chooses.

Otherwise, the avenger of blood might pursue the man slayer while hot anger is in his heart and overtake him, because the way is long, and strike him mortally, even though he was not worthy of death, because he didn’t hate him in time past.

You frustrate the plan of the poor, because Yahweh is his refuge.

Into your hand I commend my spirit. You redeem me, Yahweh, God of truth.

In God, I will praise his word. In Yahweh, I will praise his word.

I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

I indeed declare, “Love stands firm forever. You established the heavens. Your faithfulness is in them.”

But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.

Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.

Deliver me, Yahweh, from my enemies. I flee to you to hide me.

A prudent man sees danger and hides himself; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge; but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.

There will be a pavilion for a shade in the daytime from the heat, and for a refuge and for a shelter from storm and from rain.

For his burning place has long been ready. Yes, for the king it is prepared. He has made its pyre deep and large with fire and much wood. Yahweh’s breath, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.

You shall tell them, “Yahweh says: ‘If you will not listen to me, to walk in my law, which I have set before you,

“Therefore hear Yahweh’s word, all Judah who dwell in the land of Egypt: ‘Behold, I have sworn by my great name,’ says Yahweh, ‘that my name will no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, “As the Lord Yahweh lives.”

Flee! Save your lives! Be like the juniper bush in the wilderness.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible to you. Please remove this cup from me. However, not what I desire, but what you desire.”

Behold, you will be silent and not able to speak until the day that these things will happen, because you didn’t believe my words, which will be fulfilled in their proper time.”

He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying, “You both know me, and know where I am from. I have not come of myself, but he who sent me is true, whom you don’t know.

God is faithful, through whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own, that which is of the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith,

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater; for this is God’s testimony which he has testified concerning his Son.